温馨夜读 PART4 08 Late At Night, Do You Turn Off Your Cell Phone? 今夜不关机

 

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[00:01.00]Late At Night, Do You Turn Off Your Cell¹ Phone? 今夜不关机

[00:08.22]Today, my friend asked me a question.

[00:11.17]At night, do you turn off your cell phone?

[00:14.78]If you don’t, whom do you leave it on for?

[00:18.84]I usually do not turn off my cell phone.

[00:22.66]Why? I have no idea.

[00:25.70]After reading an article, 

[00:27.56]I seemed to understand a little bit: for that little bit of caring.

[00:32.37]I am now sharing this story with you.

[00:35.87]A girl would turn her cell phone off 

[00:38.47]and put it by her photo on the desk every night before going to bed.

[00:42.98]This habit had been with her ever since she bought the phone.

[00:47.03]The girl had a very close boyfriend.

[00:50.31]When they couldn’t meet they would either call or send messages to each other.

[00:55.13]They both liked this type of communication.

[00:58.63]One night, the boy really missed the girl.

[01:02.71]When he called her, however, 

[01:04.66]the girl’s cell phone was off because she was already asleep.

[01:09.72]The next day, the boy asked the girl to leave her cell phone on at night

[01:14.97]because when he needed to find her and could not, he would be worried.

[01:19.78]From that day forth², the girl began a new habit. 

[01:23.91]Her cell phone was never shut off at night.

[01:27.88]Because she was afraid that she might not be able to hear the phone ring in her sleep,

[01:34.83]she tried to stay very alert³.

[01:37.29]As days passed, she became thinner and thinner.

[01:41.44]Slowly, a gap⁴ began to form between them.

[01:45.60]The girl wanted to revive⁵ their relationship.

[01:49.65]One night, she called the boy. However, what she got was a sweet female⁶ voice:

[01:56.22]“Sorry, the subscriber⁷ you dialed is power off.”

[02:00.93]The girl knew that her love had just been turned off.

[02:05.95]After a long time, the girl had a new love.

[02:11.09]No matter how well they got along, the girl, refused to get married.

[02:17.11]In the girl’s heart, she always remembered that boy’s words 

[02:21.65]and the night when that phone was power off.

[02:24.55]The girl still kept the habit of leaving her cell phone on all through the night,

[02:30.77]but not expecting that it would ring.

[02:33.30]One night, the girl got ill.

[02:36.37]In a moment of fluster⁸, instead of calling her parents, 

[02:40.92]she dialed the new boyfriend’s cell phone.

[02:43.49]The boy was already asleep but his cell phone was still on.

[02:48.18]Later, the girl asked the boy:“Why don’t you turn your cell phone off at night?”

[02:55.01]The boy answered:“I m afraid that 

[02:57.87]if you need anything at night and aren’t able to find me, you’ll worry.”

[03:02.77]The girl finally married the boy.

[03:05.07]Late at night, do you turn off your cell phone?

1 cell   

n.区，细胞，血球；小室，牢房；电池，光电管；基层组织

参考例句：

• Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
• They have locked the prisoners up in their cell.他们已把犯人监禁在小牢房里。

2 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

3 alert   

adj.机警的，活泼的，机灵的；vt.使...警觉

参考例句：

• Drivers must be on the alert for traffic signals.驾驶员必须密切注意交通信号。
• The rabbIt'seems to be very alert all its life.兔子似乎一生都小心翼翼，十分警觉。

4 gap   

n.缺口；间隔；差距；不足，缺陷

参考例句：

• We must see that there is no gap in our defence.我们必须确保我们的防御没有漏洞。
• There is a gap of five miles between towns.镇与镇之间相隔五英里。

5 revive   

v.（使）复苏，（使）重振活力，恢复生机，复兴

参考例句：

• These flowers will revive in water.这些花在水中会再活。
• They managed to revive the injured driver with cardiac massage.他们通过心脏按压使受伤的司机苏醒了过来。

6 female   

adj.雌的，女(性)的；n.雌性的动物，女子

参考例句：

• We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
• The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。

7 subscriber   

n.用户，订户；（慈善机关等的）定期捐款者；预约者；签署者

参考例句：

• The subscriber to a government loan has got higher interest than savings. 公债认购者获得高于储蓄的利息。 来自辞典例句
• Who is the subscriber of that motto? 谁是那条座右铭的签字者？ 来自辞典例句

8 fluster   

adj.慌乱，狼狈，混乱，激动

参考例句：

• She was put in a fluster by the unexpected guests.不速之客的到来弄得她很慌张。
• She was all in a fluster at the thought of meeting the boss.一想到要见老板，她就感到紧张。